Artist reception to kick off ColorFest in Dillsboro

ColorFest’s “Art & Taste of Appalachia Artist’s Reception” will be held at the historical Jarrott House in Dillsboro at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6.

Locally selected fine artists representing Jackson, Swain, Macon, Graham and Haywood counties are bringing their artwork to the reception and will be handed over to the merchants of Dillsboro to display in their shops for the month of September. The Dillsboro merchants will be bringing their favorite recipes. Catch the Spirit of Appalachia board members will be present to help handle the artwork.

The reception kicks off ColorFest, “Art & Taste of Appalachia” coming up on Oct. 6. Selected artists will be demonstrating their art on the streets of Dillsboro with local musicians and North Carolina food on hand.

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“In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

— George Orwell

We live in an age — the relativity of truth — in which Orwell’s adage seems as dated as monocles or top hats. Just as Darwin’s theory of evolution led to Social Darwinism, a philosophy pitting one human being against another with survival of the fittest as the supreme law for success, so Einstein’s theory of relativity changed popular philosophy and cultural mores as radically as it did the study of physics.

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Outside the Tipping Point Brewing windows on Main Street, heavy snowflakes cascaded upon downtown Waynesville last Wednesday night. Cars cautiously cruised through the intersection, with the snowfall increasing as the minutes ticked by.